that makes us imagine and regulate our own decisions. In today’s modern world the “Impact Bias” its a great issue among every day of our lives i think that i go through this more than 65 times a day thinking and thinking What if?, What will happen?, Can I do this?. thoughts like this invade our minds especially with a society that lives in a huge city
like New York, a place were the decisions to purchase an item at any location makes us
have more than one million calculations in our mind because we wouldn’t be sure which of which of all choices out there will really leave us happy.
“A great gap between what we predict and what we ultimately experience is how Daniel Gilbert defines Impact Bias”. A gap were the outcomes of what we thought to happen could lead to regret of the decision made ,and views of the present. The Impact Bias as I have learn with the videos we saw in class starts with the evolution of the prefrontal cortex a part in our brains that has evolutionized our mind during the last 1 million years. Has helped us to gain the ability to stimulate the future. Which has lead us to the present that we live right now.
Other psychologist like Loewenstain describe how impact bias is affected by our moods. A term he calls “hot states and cold states” hot meaning anger, anxiety, sex, drugs, etc. Cold meaning total relaxation and no worries. Loewenstain practiced an experiment on how impact bias is affected by cold and hot when at the brink of having sexual contact. The psychologist notice that couples when at the hot states take the risks of having unprotected sex defy the thoughts of the future and live the present because happiness has appear, when they will certainly disagree if they were in the cold state were the thoughts travel smoothly.
In my daily routine i face Impact Bias more than one hundred times. Simple thoughts like what time should i go to class to get there on time?, What should i eat today at my break yes maybe that will taste good. Thoughts that ran through my mind 5 minutes ago then when i see the outcomes of my decisions i either regret or feel happy of my decision.
I think that impact bias is an important factor in our lives i come to think that impact bias is a gap between the present questions of life and the future out comes but is also like a chain of events that connects all choices and even fluctuates with our moods. I as a human being feel so special to have learn that my mind has evolutionized and carries the ability to
forecast the future to make sure we reach the simple feelings of joy, laughter which bring happiness to us.
The moment you encounter your self in right now might be caused by the decision you took a moment ago due to many calculations and thoughts of how the future will be. Choices that connect and connect with new outcomes that lead to the simplest thoughts of happiness. Our society in this city encounters so many choices that might lead to happiness do to the advance marketing and choices of many things. Impact bias affects me so much when purchasing shoes because so many thought of yes i will look good on these but when i get home i think otherwise.This whole system of how our brain works to regulate our acts by stimulating the goal of being happy will always lead us to the impact bias procedure so that our daily task have a meaning and motivation to keep surviving life
